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BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Roberts & Balfour	Is China Running Out Of Workers? As farmers stay home, factories in China scramble for employees. It's all putting pressure on wages.
TIME Asia June 27, 2011 Bill Powell	The End of Cheap Labor in China In what is supposed to be a land of unlimited cheap labor -- a nation of 1.3 billion people, whose extraordinary 20-year economic rise has been built first and foremost on the backs of low-priced workers -- the game has changed.
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004 Einhorn & Roberts	Now College Grads Can't Find A Job A job shortage for people just out of college or graduate school is a worldwide problem. Until recently the exception, even graduates in China are now facing frustration when they graduate.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Nate Weisshaar	Cashing In on the Rise of the Chinese Consumer Finding both foreign and domestic companies (from a Chinese perspective) that are focused on the Chinese consumer will provide healthy returns in the years and decades to come.
BusinessWeek March 27, 2006 Dexter Roberts	How Rising Wages Are Changing The Game In China A labor shortage in China has pay soaring. That is sure to send ripples around the globe.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2012 Dan Newman	How a Chinese Company Threatens Your Stock's Brand Chinese supplier Foxconn's employees are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore!
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Roberts & Engardio	Secrets, Lies, And Sweatshops American importers have long answered criticism of conditions at their Chinese suppliers with labor rules and inspections. But many factories have just gotten better at concealing abuses.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Balfour & Culpan	The Man Who Makes Your iPhone Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn't killed themselves this year. An exclusive look inside a postmodern industrial empire.
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BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Dexter Roberts	Is the Right to Strike Coming to China? Talks in Guangdong province could radically overhaul labor laws - including legalizing strikes.
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Engardio & Roberts	How To Make Factories Play Fair It is difficult to reform labor practices in countries where the rule of law is weak.
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Manjeet Kripalani	How A Factory Became A Flash Point Violence at a Honda plant highlights India's outdated labor laws and rattles foreign investors.
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Dexter Roberts	A Head Count to Reveal China's Secrets One of the challenges of China's 2010 census is to determine the number of migrant workers and unregistered children.
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006	A Lion for Workers' Rights Auret van Heerden has worked for labor for 30 years. He's learned to tackle brand-name companies instead of governments to get things done.
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The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 Dan Radovsky	What Hath Apple Wrought? Machines don't make iPhones; people make iPhones. Mike Daisey began questioning his near-religious Apple fervor after seeing photos of Chinese workers on an iPhone production line.
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BusinessWeek November 14, 2005 Dexter Roberts	Go West, Westerners With growth slowing in the crowded and costly coastal centers, Beijing is urging business into the hinterlands
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 David Blanchard	Just In Time -- The China Misconnection For some manufacturers, it's getting too expensive to offshore their production to China.
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IEEE Spectrum June 2005 Kumagai & Hood	China's Tech Revolution How technology is driving the country's economic boom, and what that means for the world.
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 Culpan et al.	Foxconn: How to Beat the High Cost of Happy Workers As wages rise in coastal China, Taiwanese manufacturers are shifting to inland cities. Foxconn started earlier and is moving faster.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Rich Smith	Why Does College Cost So Much? The answer is simpler than you think. The government can improve access to higher education and reduce the price of it (not the cost, mind you, but the price students pay directly) by increasing financial aid.
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Aaron Bernstein	Nike's New Game Plan for Sweatshops Unlike giants such as Wal-Mart, it now has a system to inspect -- and try to improve -- working conditions at supplier factories. But will it be too little, too late?
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Dexter Roberts	Grinding The Rust Off China's Northeast Beijing aims to reverse a long, downhill slide by dumping state factories for software, tourism -- even organic farms.
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Dexter Roberts	Rumbles Over Labor Reform Beijing's proposed worker protections are giving multinationals the jitters.
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InternetNews April 16, 2010	Microsoft Probing Chinese Factory Allegations Responding to a report by a global labor watchdog alleging prison-like conditions in a factory of one of its manufacturing partners, Microsoft says it has dispatched officials to China to investigate.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Peter Coy	Just How Cheap is Chinese Labor? Reliable data don't exist, but the U.S. government is doing some sleuthing and so far estimates Chinese factory costs at $0.64 an hour.
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 Aaron Bernstein	A Major Swipe At Sweatshops Nike, Patagonia, Gap, and five other companies have joined forces with six leading anti-sweatshop groups to devise a single set of labor standards with a common factory-inspection system. If a pilot project in Turkey succeeds, long-sought global labor standards could emerge.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 James Mehring	Germany: For Consumers, Still Little Relief Revival in German industrial activity is unlikely to do much for the labor market or consumer spending, leaving the economy to hobble along again this year.
IndustryWeek June 1, 2002 David Drickhamer	Factory Monitoring -- Just Do It Amanda Tucker, director of business compliance project at Nike Inc., explains that it is no longer considered acceptable just to have a code of conduct. There has to be monitoring behind it.
BusinessWeek April 9, 2007 Coy & Ewing	Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch.
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